Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Best Quotes - Top Quthors

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Attitude

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Age

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal even for my age.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal even for my age.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball – just spend a lot more time with my family.

Jackie Robinson as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality he was exemplary.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal even for my age.